Kent Anderson, Raise the Bar founder and Managing Director, is a qualified Business Coach and Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner. A successful business owner in his own right, Kent has helped hundreds of businesses reach their goals since Raise the Bar’s inception in 2008. He is also a highly sought after public speaker and is currently on the Advisory Board of the International College of Management Sydney (ICMS).

Kent tells the story of Raise the Bar’s beginnings: “I was running my pub business and it was growing nicely but it was when I engaged an executive coach and had an effective mentor that I noticed massive changes.” Kent recalls, “At the time I was also coaching Rugby on the side. It seemed astounding to me that if people were playing in a sporting team they accepted they needed a coach but when it came to running multimillion dollar businesses so many just ‘wing it’. And we wonder why businesses don’t reach their potential!

I’d experienced the outstanding results of effective business coaching through my pub and felt the rewarding nature of being a coach through my Rugby coaching and knew I wanted to combine the two.”

Kent became fascinated with the coaching process and after two years of studying and working with one of the world’s largest coaching companies, Shirlaws, Kent started Raise the Bar Hospitality Network. Within eighteen months Raise the Bar had expanded from its Hospitality niche into the Property Development, Legal, Retail, Automotive, Marketing and Real Estate industries to name a few.

Today Raise the Bar clients from all industries, continue to enjoy remarkable results achieved in a faster, simpler fashion.

Raise the Bar works hand in hand with business owners and operators to help them achieve remarkable results in less time with fewer hassles.

Our brand essence - success through remarkable results- is as clear as it is powerful. The word remarkable has a double meaning- we believe it is important to have a business that is remarked upon , to be able to have a remarkable business.

For clients who access the unique solutions offered by Raise the Bar, achieving success in their businesses becomes a simple outcome to achieve.

Success is rare and elusive in the difficult and treacherous business world but Raise the Bar clients can tap into a network of diverse experience and rich information to achieve a clear advantage over competitors.

Raise the Bar understands there is often a disconnect between an owner's wishes on how a business should run, look and feel and the experience staff provide consumers. Our management expertise and experience means your business will perform exactly as you - and your clients / customers - want.

Raise the values honesty, transparency and trust. This is critical to our future success and our ability to work closely with clients across every aspect of their business.

Raise the Bar has expertise in all elements of the coaching industry - from executive coaching, team performance, planning and strategy, marketing and brand development, finance and management of growth.

Our clients will also be able to benefit the best in industry peer intelligence and access targeted webinars and 'mastermind sessions' to best mine the collective intelligence housed within Raise the Bar.